{"id":2203,"date":"2018-08-02T16:59:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2021-08-19T22:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:24:49","slug":"hornet-hoverfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/hornet-hoverfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornet Hoverfly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick posting due to me not being sure, and wanting to find out more, about the Hoverfly. I&#8217;ll update the post once I have more confirmed info.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hornet Hoverfly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/43758248862\/in\/album-72157699363586984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/932\/43758248862_ffe0a72ac4_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hornet Hoverfly\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have heard through the power of the internet that it is Volucella inanis, Wasp Plumehorn. This is a view from the side. The abdomen is quite fat, not like the more common hoverfly that has a very thin abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>I would like confirmation as to what type of Hoverfly it is. The internet talks about the distribution of the Hornet Hoverfly, Volucella zonaria, that I initially thought it was, moving up from the South. Is it a frequent sighting around Bradford\/Yorkshire?<\/p>\n<p>Another type of Hornet mimic Hoverfly that someone mentioned is Volucella inanis which, given the location, is more likely &#8211; and has now been suggested as the correct ID. Thanks Roger Shaw via flickr.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hornet Hoverfly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/28870555437\/in\/album-72157699363586984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1838\/28870555437_43b8d28546_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hornet Hoverfly\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a view from the top.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mint Moth on Oragano\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/43758247782\/in\/album-72157699363586984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1791\/43758247782_5eb2b568c6_c.jpg\" alt=\"Mint Moth on Oragano\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a view of a Mint moth on Oregano taken the same day as the Hoverfly. I have added this one just for the fun of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick posting due to me not being sure, and wanting to find out more, about the Hoverfly. I&#8217;ll update the post once I have more confirmed info. I have heard through the power of the internet that it is Volucella inanis, Wasp Plumehorn. This is a view from the side. The abdomen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/7D2_8229.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7014,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/7014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}